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This project seeks to bring under one umbrella profiles of people that were key in the life of Dr. Gottfried Bloch (1914-2008), a psychoanalyst, graphologist and holocaust survivor who worked as prisoner doctor in the care of ailing inmates at several Nazi concentration camps. For more information about the in-progress documentary film about his life, visit
A FORGOTTEN SUITCASE: THE MANTELLO RESCUE MISSION Around 2005, a woman found a mysterious suitcase in her basement in Geneva, Switzerland. Inside the suitcase were more than one thousand World War II-era certificates bearing the official seal of the Consulate of El Salvador. The certificates also featured the photographs of men, women, and children. What were these documents? Why were the decad...
Women’s gymnastics made its debut in the 1928 Olympic Summer Games held in Amsterdam, and Netherlands’ female gymnasts won the gold medal. The members of the 1928 Olympic gold winning Dutch team were: * Coach: Gerrit Kleerekoper * Alida van den Bos * Estella Agsteribbe * Jacomina van den Berg (1909-1996)* Petronella Burgerhof * Elka de Levie (survived)
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the This camp was located in Scheinfeld , Germany.==History of the camp==From 1946 to 1949 a displaced persons camp was set up in Scheinfeld. About 1,500 Lithuanians were brought there from the Regensburg camp . The camp was a center of Lithuanian culture. The camp al...
The Przemysl Ghetto is situated on the San River, in the former Lwow district of eastern Galicia. Today it is part of Podkarpackie voivodship. Before WW2 about 24,000 Jews lived in the town. The Germans entered the town for the first time on 15 September 1939. Repressions and humiliations, aimed at the Jewish population, started almost immediately. Around 20,000 Jews still lived in Przemysl at ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bełżec, Poland. Gesher Galicia - Belzec ===Belzec Extermination Center===Established November 1, 1941, Belzec extermination center consisted of two camps divided into three parts: administration section, barracks and storage for plundered goods, and extermination section. Initially, there were three gas chambers using car...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Passau Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Passau , Germany.During World War II, the town housed three sub-camps of the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp : Passau I (Oberilzmühle), Passau II (Waldwerke Passau-Ilzstadt) and Passau III (Ja...
The Pińsk Ghetto (Polish: Getto w Pińsku) was a World War II extermination ghetto created by Nazi Germany for the confinement of Polish Jews living in the city of Pińsk (now Pinsk, Belarus) in the eastern territory of occupied Poland. Pińsk was overrun by the Red Army in 1939 during the Soviet invasion of Poland and captured in 1941 by the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa, when it became part ...
Joods Kinder-monument Rotterdam==Wie waren de kinderen die in de jaren 1942-1943 vanuit Rotterdam vertrokken en nooit zijn teruggekeerd? Vanaf de verzamelplaats Loods 24 aan de Rotterdamse Spoorweghaven, ter hoogte van het Poortgebouw aan de Stieltjesstraat, zijn 686 Rotterdamse Joodse kinderen in de leeftijd van één maand tot en met twaalf jaar gedeporteerd naar Westerbork. Door de namen van d...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Erlangen Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Erlangen , Germany. cf: J Jüdische Euthanasie-Opfer der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Erlangen by Wolfgang Appell (2016) (visit also: [ ]* Braun, Julius * 1897, Niederstetten, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Unterfranken* Coh...
This project seeks to link the profiles of people interned in Moringen.Three concentration camps operated in succession in Moringen, Lower Saxony, from April 1933 to April 1945. KZ Moringen, established in the centre of the town on site of former 19th century workhouses (German: Landeswerkhäuser), originally housed mostly male political inmates. In November 1933 - March 1938 Moringen housed a w...
This Ghetto contained Jews from Dereczyn, Halinka and Kolonia--Sinaiska.The Ghetto was liquidated by the SS Death Squads - Einsatzgruppen on July 24, 1942 or 10 day of Av 5702.>>>>-------------------------->>> El Moley Rachamim Holocaust Prayer
Jewish orphanage and shelter Machseh Lajesoumim - Leiden 'In memory of the children and the staff of the Jewish orphanage in Leiden, Netherlands. 'The Central Jewish orphans and Passage House 'Machseh Lajesoumim' is the eighth and last Jewish orphanage founded in our country. In the night of 5 to March 6, 1943, the first raid in Leiden took place. The raid was part of an "Evacuation The Hague, ...
The purpose of this project is to keep track of all of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Cornberg Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in the entire community of Cornberg , Germany.==History of the camp==From 1945 to 1949, the whole community of Cornberg and the monastery were a UNRRA displaced persons camp mainly for forced labourers from the Sovie...
Feldafing displaced persons camp in Bavaria was the first DP camp exclusively for use by liberated Jewish concentration camp prisoners. It was later used by Jewish refugees from the Russian controlled Jewish areas. The camp was located in Feldafing's Hoehenberg area and beyond.==Overview==The camp was opened by the United States Army on May 1, 1945 as an emergency measure to house mostly Hungar...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Wedel Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Wedel , Germany.==History of the camp=====World War II===In March 1943 a Royal Air Force bomber attack nearly reduced the town to ruins as nearly 70% of homes in Wedel were damaged or destroyed.A subcamp of th...
Background===From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Jews comprised a significant part of the Polish population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as a "Jewish paradise" for its religious tolerance, attracted numerous Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced as it did elsewhere in Europe. Poland was a major sp...
The Ghettos in Šiauliai (Shavli); The Lithuanians succeded in killing over 2000 Šiauliai Jews before the incarceration of the remaining Jews in the two Ghettos, one in the Kafkaz area and the other in the Traku neighborhood, about 500 meters away. The Ghetto gates closed behind about 5500 Jews that were crammed in an area of about 8000 square meters of living space; 1.5 m per person. The guards...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Pocking Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Pocking , Germany.==History of the camp==During the Nazi regime a side camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was set up in Pocking. After World War II the second largest DP camp ("displaced persons") in Germany was ...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of Milan Displaced Persons Camp . This camp was located in Milan , Italy.==History of the camp==Milan was a post World War II displaced person camp in the city of Milan, one of the few such camps in a major Italian city. The city also served as the administrative centre ...
Yar (Russian: Бабий Яр; Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union.The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation. The decision to kill all the Jews in ...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Hallein Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Hallein , Austria.==History of the camp==Hallein was the site of a work camp annex to the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. After the war, it was the site of a permanent Displaced Persons camp (B...
Stolin was occupied by the Germans from July 1941 to 1944. In August 1941, many Jewish refugees – especially women and children - from the nearby town of David-Gorodok came to Stolin. A ghetto was created in May 1942, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence. About 7,000 Jews lived in this small and unhealthy area, along the Bank River. The liquidation of the ghetto was conducted on September 11, 1942...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Regensburg Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Regensburg , Germany.==Nazism and World War II==Regensburg was home to both a Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft factory and an oil refinery, which were bombed by the Allies on August 17, 1943, by the Schweinfu...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors that were residents of the Mittenwald Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Mittenwald , Germany.After the end of World War II in 1945 Mittenwald belonged to the American occupation zone. The military administration erected a DP camp for Jewish and Ukrainian so-called Displaced Persons (DPs)...